Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo are returning to the NCIS franchise.
Weatherly, 55, and de Pablo, 44, will reprise their respective fan-favorite roles, Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, in an unnamed spinoff sequence ordered by Paramount +, the streaming platform revealed in a Wednesday, February 28, press launch.
The new present, which is slated to start manufacturing later this 12 months, picks up with Tony and Ziva, affectionately known as “Tiva” by some NCIS followers, elevating their daughter, Tali, collectively.
The motion begins when Tony’s safety firm is attacked. The couple should work out who’s focusing on them, studying to belief one another once more in the method.
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Weatherly and de Pablo, whose NCIS characters first crossed paths throughout a 2005 episode of the OG present, will each function government producers on the brand new sequence. The costars shared their pleasure for the spinoff in a press release included in Paramount’s press launch.
“We’ve been talking about this story for many years, and now with [executive producer] John McNamara at the helm, we are ready,” they mentioned. “The world of Tony and Ziva (and daughter Tali) promises to be an action-packed roller coaster fueled by love, danger, tears and laughter.”
Weatherly and de Pablo added that they needed to “acknowledge and thank the fans from around the world” who’ve “supported the ‘TIVA’ movement” via the years.
“To this day, they say hello in grocery stores and on the street to tell us how much these characters mean to them and ask what Tony and Ziva are up to now. This is for you!” they mentioned.
De Pablo beforehand left NCIS in 2013. Her exit was defined by Ziva’s supposed demise, leaving Tony to increase Tali on his personal.
Weatherly stayed on the CBS present for a number of extra years, leaving in 2016 after Tony revealed his resolution to resign from NCIS and commit himself to fatherhood through the season 13 finale. Both Weatherly and de Pablo have made appearances on the sequence because the season 16 reveal that Ziva was nonetheless alive.
After leaving the principle forged of NCIS, Weatherly went on to star in the CBS authorized drama Bull from 2016 to 2022. In December 2018, it was revealed that CBS paid Eliza Dushku, who briefly appeared on the sequence, a $9.5 million settlement following a declare that she was written off Bull after confronting Weatherly about his alleged inappropriate habits on set. The community subsequently stood behind Weatherly.
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During a May 2019 press name, then-President of Entertainment at CBS Kelly Kahl mentioned, “Michael made a mistake in his comments [to Dushku]. He owned that mistake. He was apologetic at the time, and he was remorseful. He was willing to take any kind of coaching or training we deem necessary for him to create a positive environment on the set.”
Dushku, 43, detailed the alleged harassment throughout a December 2018 Boston Globe op-ed.
“Weatherly had a habit of exaggerated eye-balling and leering at me; once, he leaned into my body and inhaled, smelling me in a dramatic swoon,” she wrote. “As was caught on tape, after I flubbed a line, he shouted in my face, ‘I will take you over my knee and spank you like a little girl.’”
Weatherly apologized for his habits by way of a press release to The New York Times in December 2018.
“During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script,” he mentioned. “When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.”
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